This Lyric is: #104

Secondary Roads


The house needs some new siding
And there’s a junker in the yard
Ed’s workman’s comp ran out last month
And life is just damned hard

Inside him there’s a tug-o-war
For land he swore’d never be sold
But developers pay top dollar
Out on secondary roads

Since ’89 the corral’s been empty
And now there Dixie and Clyde
Hope seemed a long time comin’
But now the smiles are hard to hide

Teaching kids the love of horses
Was the dream of Ken and Rose
Now the dream’s coming ‘round again
On this secondary road

Chorus
The stories are full of passion as the snowy silent dark
When winter’s icy pincers grip the land
It’s a hang-on fight to stay and make a go
But one by one they’ll tell you,
For better or for worse
Life in all its grit and glory lives
Down secondary roads

Townships on the interstate
Build more suburbs every year
They sell ‘em off for half a million,
A tiny lot and not a tree

God knows where the money comes from
I don’t even want to know
But I know my dreams are richer
Out on secondary roads

On the chance I get to Heaven
I’ll admire those streets of gold
But I expect that I’ll find Jesus
Out on secondary roads

Chorus
The stories are full of passion as the snowy silent dark
When winter’s icy pincers grip the land
It’s a hang-on fight to stay and make a go
But one by one they’ll tell you,
For better or for worse
Life in all its grit and glory lives
Down secondary roads




[This message has been edited by Brian Austin Whitney (edited 09-01-2002).]